Tag: Amazon

The European Commission has today decided to send a letter of formal notice to Germany in connection with the distance selling of goods via digital ...

The Federal Court of Justice currently has to decide whether the supplier of a product offered on the online trading platform Amazon is liable under ...

The following article was originally written by Andrea Rizzi from www.insightlegal.it and is published here in German and in an adapted version by arrangement. The ...

Today I would like to raise one issue, because many are hardly on their radar. That is the question of whether an injunction should be ...

The I.E. Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice, which is responsible for trademark law, among other things, has today ruled that a trademark ...

Due to antitrust concerns of the Federal Cartel Office, Amazon is changing its terms and conditions for merchants on Amazon's online marketplaces. The changes concern ...

All affiliates affected After my article yesterday on the judgment of the OLG Dresden(see here) that a website must also label links to affiliate partners ...

The District Court of Hildesheim has put a stop to Amazon, by means of an injunction, forbidding its well-known practice of simply freezing funds. Amazon ...

The I.E. Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice, which is responsible for trademark law, among other things, has to decide whether an internet ...

At the end of January this year, the Regional Court of Bochum ruled that the age restriction for alcoholic beverages also applies to online sales. ...

A popular warning topic for online retailers, be it in their own online store or on trading platforms such as Amazon and/or eBay, is the ...

Since I again advised a client last week on the subject of data protection in his online shop, the question of admonisherability also arose. I ...

Changing a competitor's description for an Amazon product can be anti-competitive. In the case to be decided by the Regional Court of Düsseldorf, someone changed ...

With a decision published today, the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main prohibited the publication of "purchased" customer reviews unless the remuneration was also ...

The Federal Association of Consumer Centres and Consumer Associations, Consumer Association of the German Federal Association of Consumers, sued Amazon before the German courts with ...

Traders on Ebay should be careful that non-German traders misuse their own VAT ID. The reason for this behavior are probably changes in the law, ...

So i.m. reached a potentially relevant verdict of the OLG Munich, because although it is based on the checkout page of Amazon, it actually affects ...

By judgment of 18.01.2019, the 4th Chamber of Commercial Matters ruled that the sale of over-the-counter, pharmacy-based medicines via the trading platform "Amazon" did not ...

Attention! As of Tuesday, there will be a new legal hurdle, for example for online retailers, namely the new packaging law. According to unverified figures, ...

Operators of marketplaces on the Internet should remember an important change in the VAT Act from 1 January 2019. With the new regulation of Sections ...